http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer/ The supposedly futile struggle against chaos - with a focus on Linux migration, security, corrosion engineering, surviving cancer, website construction, and life... Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:15:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-4309 nancy Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:41:49 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer#comment-4309 Hi Greg, I'm reading through your blog. Congrats on the results of the biopsy. Nancy Hi Greg, I’m reading through your blog. Congrats on the results of the biopsy.
Nancy

]]> http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-2934 Ramblings » Blog Archive » Lymphedema Thu, 18 May 2006 14:38:06 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer#comment-2934 [...] With my PET scan results shows no hyperactivity, I thought that malignancy had been ruled out, so only the lump material was going to be be removed. They could test the lump itself to identify it. Not so, says he. Apparently, a PET scan is not ultimately authoritative. I should have known that - there always appear to be exceptions in medicine. There still was a chance it could be malignant, and that would require more radical removal, so if there turned out to be a problem, a second surgery would be required. [...] [...] With my PET scan results shows no hyperactivity, I thought that malignancy had been ruled out, so only the lump material was going to be be removed. They could test the lump itself to identify it. Not so, says he. Apparently, a PET scan is not ultimately authoritative. I should have known that – there always appear to be exceptions in medicine. There still was a chance it could be malignant, and that would require more radical removal, so if there turned out to be a problem, a second surgery would be required. [...]

]]> http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-2802 Cara Thu, 11 May 2006 13:44:13 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer#comment-2802 Me too -- good news. i remember finding a lump in Nathan's back while giving him a backrub in between his first and second round of Hodgkins. I had been giving him a back rub when I found it, and we just sat on the bed and cried together. Turned out to be a fatty lump. Well, he did have a relapse the next year, anyways. But still, i remember how hard that false scare was. Me too — good news. i remember finding a lump in Nathan’s back while giving him a backrub in between his first and second round of Hodgkins. I had been giving him a back rub when I found it, and we just sat on the bed and cried together. Turned out to be a fatty lump. Well, he did have a relapse the next year, anyways. But still, i remember how hard that false scare was.

]]> http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Web Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:29:06 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/19/the-lump-is-not-cancer#comment-1863 That's good news! That’s good news!

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